animation Nine trippy animators interpret Dan Deacon's "When I Was Done Dying" Andrea James

synthesizers Check out this excellent video for the new Moog Sound Studio Mark Frauenfelder

elections How a political outsider's fundraising tool is helping insurgent, working-class Dems mount primary challenges and campaigns Cory Doctorow

russia Russian Orthodox Patriarch announces church-government inquiry to prove that the Tsar was killed in 1917 as part of a Jewish ritual Cory Doctorow

music How musician Dan Deacon collaborated with real rats for the Rat Film soundtrack David Pescovitz

music Oakland Ghost Ship benefit concert 12/14 with Primus, Rogue Wave, Dan Deacon, Tycho, more David Pescovitz